TOMORROW! Feminist Lecture Series Speaker Announced

Women’s & Gender Studies is honored to announce Dean Spade as this year’s Feminist Lecture Series Speaker. Dean Spade (he/him) is a Professor at Seattle University School of Law.  Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation …

Congratulations Carolyn Eichner

Congratulations to WGS Faculty Carolyn Eichner! Her new book, The Paris Commune: A Brief History (Rutgers University Press), has just come out!  

2022 WGS Paper and Project Contest Now Open!

In celebration of Women’s History Month, Women’s & Gender Studies hosts the annual UWM Student Research Paper & Project Contest. Undergraduate or graduate research papers or projects having to do with women, gender, sexuality, feminism or feminist thinking which were …

2022 Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award

The application process is now open for the Casey O’Brien Outstanding Activist Award.  The award is given in recognition of student activism (on or off-campus) and leadership within the areas of women’s issues, gender and sexual equality, and social or racial …

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.